• DOI:10.1007/S10745-005-2435-7
Corpus ID: 154454141

There is No Mother Nature—There is No Balance of Nature: Culture, Ecology and Conservation

@article{Jelinski2005ThereIN,
  title={There is No Mother Nature—There is No Balance of Nature: Culture, Ecology and Conservation},
  author={D. Jelinski},
  journal={Human Ecology},
  year={2005},
  volume={33},
  pages={271-288}
}

D. Jelinski

Published 2005

Biology

Human Ecology

Postmodern philosophy asserts there are only socially constructed narratives and "situated knowledge" that serve for all forms of explanation (Smith, 1989). Narratives, by definition, have a narrator who picks and chooses the constraints: essentially the who, what, when, where and why in a story. Narrators as storytellers then employ these constraints as the structural entities, the so-called "facts" (Allen et al., 2001), to make events into static things. In other words, the narrative is meant… CONTINUE READING

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